Introduction

People were dying. I wanted to stop it.

I dropped my pen onto the fresh, new legal pad in front of me after a four-day body language course. I hadn’t written a single note. After ten years of research and training, I discovered something awful.

Amidst an endless sea of ‘experts,’ no one had put together a system to read human behavior in a way that specifically reveals what’s hidden beneath.

The book you’re holding is the missing piece that I spent twenty years in search of. After a year in the US Navy, I became increasingly obsessed with human behavior.

The body language training I took didn’t work, and the books I read that promised things like ‘read anyone anytime’ never delivered. After a decade of research and development, I created the system you now hold in your hands.

The Six-Minute X-ray system was designed to be the most dangerous people-reading system in the world.

Relying on simple, outdated methods of behavior analysis was not good enough for our critical intelligence operations, and it’s clearly not good enough for you: someone who wants an edge.

There’s one phrase you’ll hear in every elite military training school:

“Never find yourself in a fair fight.”

This means that if you’re engaged with an opponent, the balance of power should be massively asymmetrical. Your skills, training, equipment, planning, and prowess should far exceed your opponent’s.

While our military took this advice when it came to combat training, I discovered the same principles didn’t apply to things like intelligence recruiting, interrogation, psychological operations, and human intelligence collection. That is why I built the 6MX.

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already discovered a few things:

1. Most body language training is interesting but doesn’t give you the edge you thought it would
2. A one-size-fits-all approach won’t cut it when the stakes are high
3. There’s a lot more to human behavior than most people know
4. Books on how to ‘read people’ don’t deliver on that promise

After two decades of research, experimentation, and in-field work, I’ve developed the 6MX, the cornerstone of the Behavior Pilot system that lays the groundwork to see behind the mask, connect on a completely different level, and see the entire world in a way no one else can.

The skills you’re about to learn will change your life. Less than 1% of people have them, but many think they do.

At Applied Behavior Research, training is designed for the one-match-left scenario: where there’s no second chance and no opportunity to explain away failure.

My editor convinced me to add this line into the book, but I was hesitant. In my military training, I tell all my students one thing:

If you get kidnapped and stripped of your belongings, I want you to still have these skills. They should be in your head, not in a book. Take the superpowers you’re about to learn and bring them to life. Nothing you’re about to learn belongs locked in a notebook somewhere – these skills are designed to reside in your head.

Keep in touch!

I can be reached any time at www.chasehughes.com

I would sincerely love to hear how you’re implementing these incredible skills in your life.